Was the Google Doodle tribute to Cesar Chavez appropriate?: Editorial

The Google Doodle for Easter Sunday featured Cesar Chavez, the co-founder of the United Farm Workers.

What was the big idea with that Google Doodle on Easter Sunday? In case you missed it, Google honored labor activist and civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, who was born on March 31. But many people weren’t thrilled to see the Google Doodle tribute to the man who was a co-founder, with Dolores Huerta, of the United Farm Workers.

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One religious blog, First Things, argued it wasn’t such a stretch to honor Cesar Chavez on Easter Sunday, because his leadership of the farm workers movement was shaped and informed by his Christian beliefs:

“For Chavez, social reform was never merely external. Without peace of spirit and purity of heart, there was little point in pursuing justice. Collective bargaining, just wages, shorter workdays: for Chavez none of these made sense outside the fact of his risen Lord.”